My tongue was just slightly in cheek there.

After reading the preview, it looks like this is going to go off the rails into propaganda-land. All joking about McCain's chances aside, it doesn't seem like the author's thought the concept all the way through.

So they plan to get people into a military for a war the population doesn't want by bribing 500,000 people with super powers. Yeah...

If they're doing it on that sort of scale, it can't be very expensive and they won't be keeping it in house long. Those super powers will be on the market pronto, and then who's going to enlist? Further, what percentage will stay just long enough to get their powers, and then run off to Canada? Once their on the market, they'll be available to the "terrists", and they won't be worried so much about theirs lasting past their 30's, so they'll get better powers.

This could be interesting if they followed the implications through to their logical conclusions, but I doubt they will.

President John McCain? Suspension of disbelief; exit stage right.

@Chip Overclock: Special Circumstances decide to leave Earth as is, as an experiment :(

Starship Troopers didn't miss the point, quite the opposite. It was a skillful illumination of the dark side of Heinlein that this story exposes.

It's not kind to Heinlein, but it most certainly is faithful to his ideals.

Will Smith still bit it in the end.

In the miniseries, they went on a fair bit about how they restrict networking because the cylons can take advantage of it.

"Happy Fathers Day!"

"What do you mean? I'm not a da.."

"OH SNAP!"

Well, based on available data, intelligent species universally understand English.

That and they go beyond the rim when they hit the singularity.

When I go into a bookstore, I'm usually not looking specifically for something, I'm going to browse. I may think, "Oh, I wanted X", glance at the shelf where it should be, and pick it up if it's there. If it's not, I just assume it's out of stock or not in yet and put it back in my "pick up sometime" mental pile.

Aside from them, pay audio/ebooks if you like them. The publishing industry will likely adapt just fine to the modern age, in contrast to the music and movie industries.

We'll see algal oil farms for biofuel out on the ocean first, since that can grow quite happily in salt water. (Seaweed/kelp is algae.)

Though the aliens in that turned themselves into zombies and/or banished themselves to the ether out of their fear of death...

That was Clark in The Fountains of Paradise.